Installing and setting up a word-press website or blog is pretty easy , but the next part after getting some content in is where is the important part where you will attract more eyeballs to your website and that is SEO ( which gets you more traffic).

SEO or wordpress onpage optimization for wordpress

Onpage optimization is more of a general term that applies to all websites , and with wordpress being a website as well , if you apply the correct onpage optimization to your word press blog or website , you can get heaps of free traffic coming your way from some of the top search engines like Google , yahoo and Bing and others.

Free method to get onpage optimization in wordpress

Analyse the already ranking pages in google search

How to analyse existing websites to do similar successful optimization

Decide which keyword you want do seo or onpage optimisation for ?

For eg if your blog is a gadget tech blog ,you might want to seo onpage optimize for “Uk gadget tech blog” as a keywords for your website or page

Got on googlesearch , do a search for “UK gadget Tech blog” – analyse the top three ranking websites you get in results

+ check their page title which will show on the top of the browser on the page

+ now make your own page title’s and description and page content varying them a bit keeping a focus on main keywords

Use your keywords in the appropriate places. The most important places to use your keywords are your page titles, meta descriptions, and headings. While you do not have to fill in a meta description (search engines will use whatever text is relevant

Use external links in moderation. An external link is a hyperlink to another website. Search engines expect you to link to some other websites, but if you use them excessively (i.e. more than 50 on a page), you run the risk of appearing to the search engines as a link farm.

Easy methods to get onpage optimization in wordpress via plugins

The easiest way to check on-page optimization of your wordpress website or blog is with a paid plugin , but there are some free plugins as well which do not get updated as regularly and do not have as much features as needed, but will still do little part of the onpage optimisation.

Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin - This is another popular wordpress seo plugin that also has a page analysis feature within the plugin , with also verification by bing and google and yahoo built in just like All in one seo

Onpage optimisation with Google chrome and Firefox browsers

Onpage optimisation can not only be done by wordpress plugins , but also can be done with browser plugins like this firefox browser seo plugin below

Another free wordpress seo plugin is SEO plugin – Platinum SEO which is useful for basic seo for a wordpress blog